by Robin Harris | Monday, September 21, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A new web scale – they claim linear scaling to 50,000 nodes — filesystem from MaxiScale has some interesting wrinkles. Wrinkle #1 – like several of the largest Web scale filesystems MaxiScale does not use RAID. Instead, it replicates files among peer...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 18, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage |
If cloud computing or cloud storage is a gold rush, hosting providers are a rich vein. I attended the Tier1’s Hosting Transformation Summit this week to learn more about them. The short answer: hosting companies are at least as confused about cloud...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, NAS, IP, iSCSI |
Imagine cloud storage that didn’t cost much more than bare drives. High density storage with RAID 6 protection, reasonable bandwidth and web-friendly HTTPS access. And really, really cheap. Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of a RAID systems cost. The rest goes for...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, August 18, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Information Management |
Bigtable to the rescue (sort of) In Part 1, Sean Quinlan, a Google engineer, related how the original GFS single master architecture became a bottleneck. But since Google controls its entire software stack from OS to apps, it could compensate by tweaking the apps and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 17, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters |
A couple of years ago at the first Seattle Conference on Scalability, Google’s Jeffrey Dean remarked that the company wanted 100x more scalability. Unsurprising given the rapid growth of the web. But there was more to it than that: GFS – the Google File...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, July 30, 2009 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Future Tech, Management |
Check out their homepage and, as of today, “This page is not here yet….” That recursive mindbender is an apt introduction. Who – and what – is RisingTide Systems? StorageMojo spoke to founder Marc Fleischman to find out. The StorageMojo...
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